Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-12-03
NATIONAL PROHIBIrIoNIsTs.
ST. john Winds Up the Chicago Nesting
with Ringing Speech.

81 john Winds Up the Chicago Meeting
with a Ringing Speech.
CHICAGO, Ill {, Def. 2.-The conference
of the national prohibition committee was
brought to close last night by grand
msss-meeting st battery D. The hall was
filed and the utmost enthusiasm pre-
vailed. j. Hobbs, who once ran for Gov
ernor of Illinois on the prohibition ticket,
presided. The speakers were General
Clinton B Fisk of New Jersey, Mrs. j.
L&throp and ex Governor st. John. Fol-
lowing is the substance Of Governor ST.
Johns speech:
Mr.. President and Citizens: For
nearly forty years this country has been
under the control Of two old parties, and
what is it's legal, social and moral politi-
cal condition. Let me see, we hang and
imprison anarchists, and st all times pro-
tect and perpetuate 100000 saloons, the
hot-beds where anarchy is prop ageted and
thrives. While the drunksrd goes to
perdition, the drunkard-makers go TO the
Legislature to enact laws for the people.
The children cry for bread and the father
goes home pennlless and drunk,
while the mother is powerless to
protect her home and boy with
the ballots. The ssloonkeeper destroys
both with his ballot. AS the Sabbath bell
invites people to the house Of God, the
brass band leads the way to the Sunday
horse race and bsse ball and beer garden.
JEFF Davis in his dots ge without g ballot
is denounced as traitor and the ex-rebel
guerrilla in the prime OF his manhood
with the ballot is given foreign mission
The right of free ballot is demanded for
the black man of the south while
the whites Lare burned and hung in efigy
for using that right in the north. Minis
tiers of the gospel were prosecuted and
driven from the pulpit for preaching and
voting against African slavery forty years
ago, and they haYe been prosecuted, boy
cotted and driven from the pulpit for
preaching 6nd voting against rum, the
slavery Of to-day. Lovejoy fell S martyr
to freedom in the fight against the slavery
curse. Haddock and Gabriel and four
others have fell martyrs to our home in
this struggle against the saloon
curse. In the face of political
platforms declaring ''for fair count" the
black man is counted out in Mississippi
and South Carolina in this race for Con-
gress and the white man is counted out in
Michigan and Ohio for prohibition.
While heavy import duties are placed
upon foreign goods some of the foreign
labor enters free. Yet the people are
asked to perpetuate the political parties
under whose rule this condition
OF things has been brought about
and why? Surely because neither
Of them stands pledged to higher stand
ard Of morality, the suppression OF liquor
traffic and greater protection to our
homes and our boys, for no such pledges
are made. Then what is the result Of
voting for such q party? Why, simply to
continue the old order of things and per-
petuate the sectional, political and race
prejudices Of the two parties, who have
no issue between them except to de-
termine which shall have the officers and
control the public plumber. The Chicago
Tribune plGcidly tells thissmorning that
the license system is to be continued, and
intimates that prohibition is ever ready
to compromise with the liquor traffic. We
say to the Tribune ana its party that the
Prohibition party has "no compromise
with wropg' inscribed upon its
banner, and we propose TO
fight it cut upon that line
until under Gods guidance every saloon
has been driven from our land and the
houses Of the people made free; and in
1888, as heretofore, we propose to appeal
to reason and arouse the conscience and
heart of the people so that within five
years from now the Tribune and it's fol-
lowers will be forced into the Democratic
camp or compelled to join'the Prohibition
party. There will be no other place for it
to GO, and in this campaign the man that
shall lead US to glorious triumph is that
honest patriot and Christian statesman,
General Clifton B. Fisk OF New jersey.